Capro expansion at Poland’s ZAT enters commissioning phase

LONDON (ICIS)--A 15,000 tonne/year caprolactam (capro) expansion at ?xml:namespace>Poland’s Zaklady Azoty Tarnow (ZAT) has entered the commissioning phase, the company said on Friday.

The additional capacity, scheduled for a start-up at the end of February, two months beyond the original intended date, will take ZAT’s capro capacity to 101,000 tonnes/year, it added.

In January ZAT, also a producer of polyamide 6 (or nylon 6), announced that it had linked up with the only other Polish capro producer, Zaklady Azotowe Pulawy (ZAP), to build a 80,000–120,000 tonne/year capro plant in either China or Taiwan.